I want a good vampire book, blood sucking and romance with conflict and trial!!!! good vampires bad vampires, medal some humans, helpful humans!!! I want to know what books are good?? I really like books like "New Moon" and "Twilight" both by Meyer. So book like those, but unique as there own please help?!?!?!?!
Thanks
2007-03-11 15:28:01 · 13 answers · asked by live4literature 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The Gardella Vampire Chronicles is a historical fiction series about a family legacy of vampire slayers, and is written by Colleen Gleason.
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The Rest Falls Away launches the series, and was published by Penguin Books in January 2007. It is the first of five planned books about Victoria Gardella Grantworth, a young woman living in Regency-era England who finds out she is a vampire hunter. The second book, Rises the Night, will be released in June 2007.
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Vampire Blood (also called the Cirque du Freak trilogy) is the first trilogy in The Saga of Darren Shan by the author Darren Shan. It contains the books Cirque Du Freak, The Vampire's Assistant and Tunnels of Blood. These starting books explore how Darren must adapt to his new life, and what that entails. The first book contains the reasons why he became a half-vampire and what he had to give up in order to save his ex-best friend.
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TEMPTING FATE. (Hardcover)
by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (Author)
Delicious and tragic accounting of one of the chapters in the life of the immortal Comte St. Germain . Please avail yourself.
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Brian Lumley's Necroscope series...brilliant take on the vampire...unsettling...classic storyteling...starts with the book Necroscope....
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They Thirst by Robert McCammon A classic for horror writer and readers everywhere. Some of the best vampire characters that started the roles for the more modern day vampire writers
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Bite by Richard Laymon..... A strange twist tale more on victim then the vampire
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Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons...... this is the vampire book to read
2007-03-11 16:33:11 · answer #1 · answered by Zholla 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The Anita Blake series by Laurell Hamilton starts out strong. The main character raises the dead for a living; on the side she helps a paranormal investigative team and she's a certified vampire executioner. She also gets mixed up with an Alpha werewolf and the Master of the City. The first books in the series I didn't want to put down.
Sherrilyn Kenyon writes the Dark Hunter series. These are immortals without souls sent to protect humans from Daimons (vampires) and other predators. Most of the stories take place in New Orleans and the surrounding area. I've really enjoyed these so far - they're a bit "softer" than Laurell Hamilton's.
There's a series of "Undead" mysteries by Mary Janice Davidson. This is a short summary by a reviewer on Amazon for Undead and Unwed:
Elizabeth "Betsy" Taylor is a fashion (especially shoe) obsessed former model; she got laid off from her thankless secretarial job and then is hit by a car and killed - all on her birthday! She wakes in a funeral home and figures out she's not alive but not dead either. When her attempts to finish herself off fail, and a thirst for blood (eeww!) asserts itself, she has to face it - she's a vampire! Reviewer: baltimore0502 "Hon!" (BALTIMORE, MD USA)
Charlaine Harris writes Southern Vampire Mysteries. Here's a description from Book 7, coming out in May from the Amazon site:
Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every sort of undead and paranormal creature imaginable. After being betrayed by her longtime vampire love, Sookie is dealing with a new man in her life-the shapeshifter Quinn-and the long-planned vampire summit. The vampire queen of Louisiana's power base was weakened by hurricane damage to New Orleans. Some vamps want to finish what nature started. Sookie must decide what side she'll stand with.
And here's the great part about using Amazon for a search: you can see what other people view and/or buy, which gives you similar items to check out. That's what the link is about below. Sorry if I got too carried away...
2007-03-12 00:04:43 · answer #2 · answered by Isthisnametaken2 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Laurell K. Hamilton's books are incredible--vampires, werecritters and all the romance and conflict you could hope for and then some. The series starts a little slow, but trust me, by the third or fourth book you'll be hooked.
Kim Harrison's books are good, and I just started a new set by Patricia Briggs. Only two in that series, though, so I am witholding judgment.
2007-03-12 01:18:34 · answer #3 · answered by Jensenfan 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
from a hard core vampire lit addict, the ultimate in cont. lit Anne Rice's "Interview with a Vampire", although you will have this recommended , it's the best novel in 20 years about vampires. For a really cool anthology of " cont. "short stories -emphasis 1930-1950's try to find "Vampires: Two Centuries of Great Vampire Stories" edited by Alan Ryan c. 1987, Doubleday & Doubleday. Try Amazon. Good Luck the subject/genre is just too compelling.
2007-03-12 03:14:33 · answer #4 · answered by lolita 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles are definitely good...start with Interview With a Vampire and go from there. I will say though that I quit reading her books a while ago...they just got too 'flowery' for me...just like Stephen King, her earlier works are better.
2007-03-11 23:27:08 · answer #5 · answered by Sunidaze 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To clarify........the Anita Blake books are by Laurel K Hamilton. Just thought I'd add that.
I'm also always in the market for a good vampire book.
Lynn Viehl also has a new Darkyn series that rocks....check it out at the link. Also putting my favorite link for free books!!
2007-03-11 22:47:44 · answer #6 · answered by TJ 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The best vampire books I've ever read were the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice.
2007-03-11 22:30:37 · answer #7 · answered by Becca 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series is fantastic. There is a lot of sex in the later books, but the story is awesome too.
They take place in Saint Louis, Missouri, and they really humanize the vampires, unlike Anne Rice, who is great in her own way.
2007-03-11 22:41:22 · answer #8 · answered by pomme_de_sangstl 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Garden Of Stones- Jody Offen
To Love a Vampire - Jody Offen
Well I thought these were good books, but I can't guarantee that it will fit your description.
2007-03-11 22:36:08 · answer #9 · answered by big_whitey_2006 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Necroscope Series by Brian Lumley. All the topics you just mentioned. A little slow to start but, worth the effort of reading.
2007-03-11 23:51:41 · answer #10 · answered by rabbitmedic 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋